Motivational Quotes

Love

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

- Oakley, Ann

Best Quotes about Love

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar